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johnsjolander.com: My thoughts on twitter etiquette.

  • svartling · 11 months ago
    Great article, but I think it doesn't matter if you use "Via" when Re-Tweeting, because when blogging you often refer to the source with a "Via" link.
  • Mike Butcher · 11 months ago
    Great list but I would advise always re-tweet the original @name - gives kudos to the person who started the meme.
  • pd0 · 11 months ago
    Great point Mike! I'll edit the post with that in mind.
  • sannarayman · 11 months ago
    Intressanta punkter. Och nu, på begäran, några korta reflektioner.

    1:an och 2:an känns självklart viktiga. 3:an är jag mer tveksam till. Är du säker på att detta inte bara är din längtan tillbaka till för några månader sedan då Twitter var ett "smalare" forum bestående av människor världen över som alla kände sig som pionjärer på ett nytt sorts socialt media?
    Även om jag inte ens hade ett konto då kan jag tänka mig att Public Timeline då var en något mer överskådlig flod. Nu är det ju omöjligt att någonsin spotta sina egna tweets där. Och om man kollar så är det olika språk hela tiden. Den sortens "regionalisering" av Twitter tror jag är ofrånkomlig.

    Sen punkterna om konversationsetiketten.

    Jag har sett DM mer något att använda när man vill kunna säga något lite mer privat. Överlag tilltalar det mig att konversationer mellan människor jag följer pågår och puttrar och att jag kan hoppa in när jag så önskar.

    Och att uppmana till brief conversations. Där tror jag du siktar rätt högt i etiketten. ;-) Risken är rätt stor att du med detta som etikettsregel mycket snart kommer att störa ihjäl dig på att alla gör "fel".

    Jag får känslan av att det främsta redskapet för att styra och sålla sitt eget flöde kommer att bli via mer eller mindre temporära och specifikt upprättade hashtags för givna ämnen men kanske ännu mer genom att man följer eller avföljer personer som man inte tycker ger en något?

    Tjing!
  • pd0 · 11 months ago
    I've taken the liberty to push Sanna's swedish through google translator (my comments below):

    Interesting points. And now, on request, a few brief thoughts.

    1: an and 2nd is obviously important. 3: an, I am more skeptical. Are you sure this is not just your desire to return to a few months ago when Twitter was a "narrower" forum of people worldwide who all felt that the pioneers of a new kind of social media?
    Although I do not even have an account where I can imagine that the Public Timeline which was a somewhat more transparent river. Now it is impossible to ever spit their own tweets there. And if you check it is the language all the time. The kind of "regionalization" of Twitter, I think is inevitable.

    Then points on the matter of etiquette.

    I have seen DM more something to use when you want to say something a little more private. Generally speaking to me that conversations between people I follow the ongoing and [is happening] and I can get in when I so desire.

    And to call for brief conversations. I think you are aiming high in the etiquette. ;-) The risk is great right to you with this as a rule very soon will disturb you to death, that all [are wrong doers].

    I get the feeling that the main tool to control and refine their own flow will be using more or less temporary and specifically established hashtags for given topics, but perhaps even more by following or of the following people that you do not like giving a little?

    Tjing!
  • pd0 · 11 months ago
    I may be an elitist (who am I kidding? I'm a total elitist) but I prefer twitter the way it is now. much richer.

    I regard this post as being more of guidelines than rules. A way to act if you want loyal followers. Being concise and clear is key, unless you just want to be an annoyance to your audience.

    I break these rules every day. But I use these thoughts to try to keep an high standard on my twitter conversation. I hope, and think it's helping.

    Billy McCormac (http://twitter.com/bmc2) commented in private saying that he thought that twitter has reached critical mass in sweden and it should be OK to twitter in swedish if you regard your audience as mainly swedish.

    I tend to agree with him, but for me it'll keep being english since 80-90% of my audience isn't swedish.
  • Ola · 11 months ago
    Great guidelines, but as an entrepreneur I love to break rules :)

    Regarding language you have to consider that not everyone speak English (I am in Panama for the moment and you wouldn´t get many followers just using English here).

    Regarding retweeting, I am getting more and more annoyed that everyone retweets the same stuff instead of making some interesting comments to the stuff and tweet the link to the comments.
  • anjelina · 11 months ago
    so true:)like your post..